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The Gender Wire retweeted
.@maxlawsontin told @ipsnews extreme poverty can be ended by 2030—“but only if we radically reduce inequality.”
“Right now, for every new dollar of wealth, the richest 1% pocket 41 cents ―and the entire bottom half of humanity gets just a single cent."
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Members of Afghanistan's Kabul Critical Thinking Movement conceal their identities and publish protest videos and statements online, knowing that discovery could endanger them and their families ipsnews.net/2026/10/afghan-w…
Once a law student and teacher, 28-year-old Gulsuum lost her studies and job under Taliban restrictions. Now she secretly campaigns online for Afghan women's rights, concealing her identity for safety ipsnews.net/2026/10/afghan-w…
Afghan women are defying Taliban restrictions through clandestine online protests, risking reprisals as they demand education, freedom and human rights ipsnews.net/2026/10/afghan-w…
Afghan women have resorted to online protests as their only available recourse, even though the risks of being caught are high and carry enormous consequences ipsnews.net/2026/10/afghan-w…
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Nearly one million women and girls have been forced from their homes in Gaza since October 2023, representing almost every woman and girl in the territory. Most now live in tents or among the ruins, without privacy, according to UN Women ipsnews.net/2026/10/nearly-5…
UN Women reports that nearly 50,000 women and girls in Gaza have been killed or severely injured since the onset of war in October 2023, amounting to one in 21 Gazan women and girls losing their life or living with lifelong disabilities ipsnews.net/2026/10/nearly-5…
Afghanistan had around 2,000 female journalists before the Taliban returned in 2021, but fewer than 200 remain, according to the Free Speech Centre
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"If female journalists are cut off from information, why would they even remain in the media?" asks Asma, a Kabul radio news manager
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It has become difficult for Afghan journalists to obtain information from the authorities, who are permitted to use smartphones only with special authorization. This ban particularly affects women, for whom face-to-face interviews are not an option ipsnews.net/2026/10/smartpho…
11.7 million more women and girls could face food insecurity by the end of 2026, as the escalation in the Middle East and disruption to the Strait of Hormuz drive up food prices and strain livelihoods and household resources, finds @UN_Women analysis ipsnews.net/2026/10/middle-e…
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Women bear a disproportionate dementia burden: they account for about two-thirds of deaths from Alzheimer’s and other dementias worldwide and provide around 70% of informal care hours ipsnews.net/2026/10/dementia…
It is time for a woman to head the UN and govern it with feminist leadership values of consensus building, courage, power-sharing and radical inclusion, says @mandeep_tiwana1 ipsnews.net/2026/10/a-rash-o…
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"The UN should address the erosion of women’s rights with the same urgency applied to emerging technological threats. The General Assembly should establish a global monitoring mechanism empowered to impose diplomatic and financial consequences on states that roll back women’s legal protections".
At UNGA 81, 86 of the 174 speakers raised technology and AI, compared with 46 who raised human rights and gender. Why is the international system allowing the erosion of women’s rights to remain a secondary concern? ipsnews.net/2026/09/strategi…
For 16 years, Shehnaz lived with urine leakage after a surgical injury during a C-section, unaware it was treatable. A complex four-hour operation has now given her hope of a life without fistula ipsnews.net/2026/10/for-paki…
Pakistan made progress in tackling obstetric fistula, but another form is rising: one caused not by obstructed labor but by C-sections, hysterectomies and other medical procedures in health facilities, iatrogenic ipsnews.net/2026/10/for-paki…
UNFPA has found that a staggering 70% of fistula cases in Pakistan result from surgical injuries. A recent seven-year prospective study by Isra University also found a 56% rise in iatrogenic fistula among gynaecological patients between 2017 and 2024 ipsnews.net/2026/10/for-paki…